…exploit natural resources. In Irkutsk, special attention to temporal variation among questions can possibly be explained by rapid changes in social, economic, and political norms occurring during respondents’ lifetimes. In…
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…cult of personality.[17] These types of portraits tend to exhibit “a kind of pretended spiritual pathos which is evoked by mysteriously blurred backgrounds-landscapes, skies or townscapes.”[18] Rakhmon takes the foreground…
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…50,000 each. Its website also has recorded video and audio interviews with cultural and political figures. Magazines.russ.ru gives excerpts from many of Russia’s smaller intellectual magazines. The service is provided…
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…Navalny’s research, this transaction brought the sellers over $50 million. Although the Moscow Chief Administration of Internal Affairs brought formal charges against executives of both companies, most of the charges…
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…something to gain from a cooperative working relationship. China’s growing economy needed natural resources such as fuel while Russia needed capital. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, “the capital…
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…and sociological approaches capture some of the underlying issues behind Sufi-Salafi competition in the North Caucasus. The roles of external influence and dissatisfaction with the Russian regime should not be…
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…ideas proposed by Stankić.[23] Although many Serbs believe they have many cultural similarities to Russians, Stankić believes that Serbs have much more in common with regional territories in the Balkans…
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…highly hypothetic theories assume the form of political dogmas that might seriously affect world policies, it is necessary to call for alertness. Highly hypothetical theories can quite easily turn into…
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…etc). Meanwhile, “place” includes not only the physical features, but also the socioeconomic, political, historical, and cultural characteristics of an individual’s environment. This paper will develop a basic analysis of…
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…Russian organizers had local political and educational elites such as the Jadid (more liberal, reform-minded Muslims) to help establish their rule.[8] Texts and monuments, looted by Russian forces, were returned…
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…changes – such as changes to social structures, can be seen in the same light. The LGBTQ rights movement in the US, for instance, came after decades of largely successful…
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…borders to Western economic and political influences coincided with massive changes in the government’s social and cultural policies. Known as glasnost, the program of cultural liberalization encouraged journalists and artists…
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…investor, Alfa Group also operates multiple charities, including the scholarships Alfa-Chance (for Russians) and Alfa Fellowships (open internationally) and Life Line, which helps children with severe illnesses. They also invest…
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…higher-level courses. Second, it is certainly not powerful enough for professional-level work. AI is a generative system that “guesses” at what the next word should be based on statistical averages.…
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…regular personal exchanges. Thus, communication between the National Security Archives and Memorial offices is conducted almost wholly online and, for ease of coordination, is channeled through Savranskaya’s office in Washington…
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…judicial system. The party proposes to start off with the introduction of electronic court documents and new standards for judges and procurators, namely, the introduction of electronic testing for them…
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…in this manner or from the online catalogs. (Not all of the resources in the library are listed in the online catalogs.) However, there is one exception to this rule:…
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…computer in the reading room. Further, it can be a good idea to review the old physical card catalogues in addition to an archive’s electronic database. RGALI archivists, for instance,…
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The following study guides cover issues concerning Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. They are focused on providing important pillar information such as recent statistics and structural overviews,…
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…you are in Russia, you can sometimes find copies of these in bookstores or libraries and peruse them beforehand. Some archives even have them online. However, keyword searches in the…
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